Patrick Holford is tremendously proud of what he believes Food for the Brain (FFTB) accomplished during their collaboration with Chineham Park Primary School. So much so that, to the fair-minded, it seems as if he is perilously close to neglecting to acknowledge the tremendous achievements that the Chineham Park Primary School had made prior to the implementation of the project.

You may be proud of the staff, headmistress, children, parents and the mentors who participated in their reading schemes; you may be interested to learn about just how much they were already achieving before the FFTB project was implemented in Chineham Park Primary. E.g., business and community involvement; a doubling in SATs scores; good participation in the reading schemes with implications for future SAT scores. The school had already moved up from the lowest 50 of 13,562 schools and was out of the bottom 200. Those admirable reading schemes and other interventions were already paying-off in terms of SATs results and gave the school a broader population of pupils who were achieving more than before while students who had benefited from those schemes were ageing-out and moving on to another school.

Disclaimer

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